No one dared to invade the Dongjiang border, and the world was peaceful. Xia Jingchen, a general, had a lot of free time. When he had nothing to do, he often went to the Yuqing Pavilion in the West Wing to look for Xia Jingyan. It was the same today.
But what is unusual is that there is an extra Xia Jingxuan in the west wing today.
In the west wing, Xia Jingxuan was memorizing poems again. It happened that Xia Jingyan had never memorized the poem before, and had never read it, so she couldn't remember a single sentence. Xia Jingxuan punished her by walking in the shade of a tree, with a head on her head.
Hold that book.
One of them has been caught, but the other one has not yet been investigated. Xia Jingxuan was about to arrest Xia Jingchen, but he didn’t expect Xia Jingchen to come to the door himself!
The moment Xia Jingchen appeared at the end of the corridor, he happened to bump into Xia Jingxuan who was walking out of the pavilion. Both of them were stunned for a moment. Xia Jingchen was the first to react, gasped and turned around to run away, while Xia Jingxuan was behind.
Chasing.
"Brother, don't you have any government affairs today?!" Xia Jingchen shouted as he ran.
No! Xia Jingxuan must be very busy these days! How can he still have time to look up poems? You know, Xia Jingchen thought that those poems were useless and threw them all back into the warehouse, without reading any of them!
"Young boy! I didn't expect that! I'm very free!" Xia Jingxuan responded. The night before, he had approved all the government affairs overnight just to find trouble with Xia Jingchen and Xia Jingyan today.
When Xia Jingyan saw that Xia Jingxuan had run away and no one was watching, he naturally sat down consciously, feeling very grateful to Xia Jingchen in his heart.
You are destined to come thousands of miles away to take the blame!
Don't ask why Xia Jingxuan loves to "bully" his younger siblings so much. The question is that he was "tortured" by Xia Jingsheng when he was a child, so he also wanted to give children younger than himself a complete childhood.
Xia Jingchen ran half a circle around the palace, running and dodging all the way. When he saw a newly dragged big box in front of him, he got in without asking who it belonged to.
Xia Jingchen's thought was: Never mind him! Anyway, the entire palace belongs to Brother Wang, so what you want is not just a matter of words?
Who would have thought that this box happened to belong to Zhou Ranzhuo? Who would have thought that Zhou Ranzhuo would be so vindictive?
Zhou Ranzhuo was renovating his own courtyard, and he had contributed a lot to saving the princess. Xia Jingsheng rewarded him with many items, and also granted permission to free up a courtyard in the palace for Zhou Ranzhuo to live in. Zhou Ranzhuo did not want it to be messy, so he ordered his servants to buy several items.
He brought a big box to collect the sundries. He didn't dare to be too ostentatious. After buying the box, he sent his servants to clean it up by himself. He happened to come out to move the last box and saw Xia Jingchen get in.
"Hey, general, what are you doing in the box?" Zhou Ran put his hands on the door of the box and smiled maliciously at Xia Jingchen.
"Zhou Ranzhuo!" Xia Jingchen was still angry. Didn't he say last time that it was not a good time to ask Zhou Ranzhuo to wait?
Xia Jingchen squatted in the box and stretched out his hand to "greet" Zhou Ranzhuo.
Zhou Ranzhuo was hiding and wondering why Xia Jingchen didn't come out to fight. It wasn't until Xia Jingxuan's voice came from the small garden behind him and Xia Jingchen hurriedly retracted into the box that he suddenly realized.
Noticing that Zhou Ranzhuo's smile was becoming more and more "brilliant", Xia Jingchen swallowed his saliva and was full of pleading to Zhou Ranzhuo. Unfortunately, Zhou Ranzhuo didn't accept this.
Zhou Ranzhuo secretly grabbed the lid and iron lock of the box and gave Xia Jingchen an "advice": "Really, you don't need to thank me too much."
After saying that, Xia Jingchen was about to run away, but Zhou Ran pressed the lid and forced him down, shouting while pressing:
"General! Why are you in the box? It's so stuffy in there! Who are you hiding from!"
The loud shouting spread throughout Prince Xia's palace. Zhou Ranzhao closed the lid and "considerately" hung up a large iron lock. He turned around and saluted Xia Jingxuan who heard Xia Xun approaching.
"Locked up?" Xia Jingxuan wanted to laugh at Xia Jingchen, but he still endured it in front of his subordinates.
"Yes, Lord Hou." Zhou Ranzhuo responded, feeling ecstatic in his heart: "Haha, I deserve to be killed by you!"
"Good job." Xia Jingxuan came to Zhou Ranzhuo and whispered.
However, it is really not good to bring outsiders to bully your own brothers, so I just whispered, and what outsiders heard was Xia Jingxuan scolding Zhou Ranzhuo:
"You, how can you be so disrespectful to the general, why don't you quickly call someone to carry the general and his box to my courtyard!"
Of course, the last sentence is the key point.
"Yes." Zhou Ranzhuo held back his smile.
How worried would it be to let others carry him? Then he couldn’t do it himself. What if someone else changed his mind and let Xia Jingchen go softly? Wouldn’t that be contrary to Xia Jingxuan’s wishes? What would happen then?
Zhou Ranzhuo called Gu Yun, and the two of them worked together to carry Xia Jingchen into Xia Jingxuan's courtyard.
Xia Jingchen originally thought about finding someone else to lift him up, and that he could offer some bribes to get that person to let him go, but when he heard the voice, it was still Zhou Ranzhuo.
Gotta! Admit it!
Xia Jingchen looked up at the lid of the box and sighed: "What evil did I do in my previous life? I will meet Zhou Ranzhuo in this life."
Xia Jingsheng's political affairs eased a little, so whenever he had free time, he invited Zhou Ranzhuo to play chess for a day, and he felt that he and Zhou Ranzhuo had a lot of fun chatting with each other, as if they were close friends.
"Mr. Zhou's superb chess skills make me feel a little ashamed of myself."
After losing another set, Xia Jingsheng smiled.
Ever since he was a child, except for his father, everyone else had to give in to him when playing chess. He knew that his chess skills were only passable and not yet perfect, so how could he win every time? He was somewhat averse to these "humility"
I'm tired of it. It's been so many years since I met someone who won't let him go. It's like playing chess with Zhou Ranzhuo. One person wins a few games and the other loses a few games. Wouldn't it be more interesting?
"I can only take advantage of loopholes, but I can't compare to the prince." Zhou Ranzhuo pretended to be humble, but in fact he was very proud:
"Haha, you can't beat me!"
"I've been having some free time recently, and I have some free time. I invited you to come to the king's small courtyard for tea. I played with chess pieces and talked about the art of war. It was very pleasant. However, I never asked you, how is your life in the palace? Are you adapting to it?" Xia Jingsheng
While talking, he poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to Zhou Ranzhuo.
Zhou Ranzhuo took the tea and before he could thank him, Xia Jingchen came again and sat down next to Xia Jingsheng, sweating profusely and breathing heavily. However, after running around the palace for more than ten times, his bones were almost exhausted.
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"Tired... I'm exhausted..." Xia Jingchen snatched the tea from Zhou Ranzhuo's hand and drank it down. Then he screamed because it was so hot that he knew it was boiling water!
After blowing away the hot air in his mouth, Xia Jingchen pulled Zhou Ranzhuo's sleeve to wipe his sweat.
Zhou Ranzhuo was full of disgust, but in front of Xia Jingsheng, he couldn't say anything and could only follow Xia Jingchen.
"Jingchen, what are you doing? You are so exhausted. I have never seen you like this when I sent troops to fight." Xia Jingsheng asked, took out a handkerchief from his arms and handed it to Xia Jingchen.
It's not okay for him to "bully" Zhou Ranzhuo like this. Corporal Li Xian should do it, but he didn't know how much "deep hatred" there was between the two of them. It was Zhou Ranzhuo who caused Xia Jingchen to become like this.
"I...I ran around the palace...more than a dozen times...Second brother, he came to look up poetry again..." Xia Jingchen patted his chest to feel relieved.
Sure enough, it was the same again. Xia Jingsheng smiled and said, "You haven't memorized poetry."
"I'm a general! Why should I study the art of war, improve my military force, and memorize poetry and prose..." Xia Jingchen felt helpless, "Zhou...Zhou Ranzhuo, you've done me a disservice!"
"The Marquis wants to arrest you, so I have no choice but to obey." Zhou Ranzhao suppressed a smile.
Xia Jingsheng was confused when he heard this, so he asked, "What's going on?"
"Brother Wang! Zhou Ranzhuo helped second brother catch me! He even locked me in a box and carried me to second brother's yard! It hurt me terribly!"
Xia Jingchen wailed for a while, feeling extremely aggrieved. However, his appearance made Xia Jingsheng and Zhou Ranzhuo unable to stop laughing.
"Brother Wang! You still laugh at me, and you still face him!" Xia Jingchen had a stubborn temper.
"Okay, okay, brother Wang, why don't you stop laughing?" Xia Jingsheng had to restrain himself and handed Xia Jingchen a cup of tea, "You, the descendants of the royal family are expected to be knowledgeable in both civil and military affairs. Brother Wang knows that you are top-notch in martial arts.
I don’t worry about you, but you can’t miss this article. You can read some of Jingxuan’s poems and essays. I don’t ask you to learn them carefully, but if someone asks, we can’t know everything about them, right?”
"I know." Xia Jingchen shrugged.
"Also, you should avoid causing trouble to Mr. Zhou." Xia Jingsheng continued.
"Brother Wang...I..." Xia Jingchen was dissatisfied.
"Okay, you have a bad temper. You must have had an argument with Mr. Zhou again, right? Brother Wang knows that you should be kinder to others on weekdays." Xia Jingsheng said, completely unaware of the aggrievedness in Xia Jingchen's heart.
If you don’t understand, you can also ask Mr. Zhou for advice. Brother Wang still trusts Mr. Zhou’s literary talent.”
It’s good that you didn’t beat him up, why should you ask for advice?! Xia Jingchen glared at Zhou Ranzhuo.
Zhou Ranzhuo was still very proud. Xia Jingchen could tell from the shape of his mouth that Zhou Ranzhuo was provoking!